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Speaker 1: This is Seth Leibson for town hall dot Com. Those

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Speaker 1: of us of a certain age will remember America's two

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Speaker 1: hundredth birthday well. It was a year long celebration, with

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Speaker 1: pageantry and even commercials celebrating our patriotism everywhere. Now, months

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Speaker 1: away from the date of our two hundred and fiftieth birthday,

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Speaker 1: all seems rather quiet on the Western civilizational front. Our

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Speaker 1: founders weren't so sure we'd last anywhere near this lung,

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Speaker 1: and yet here we are, two hundred and fifty years later.

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Speaker 1: What changed in the last fifty years the media and

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Speaker 1: the academy, both of which have trained millions of pupils

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Speaker 1: and teachers and citizens to view America as a down

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Speaker 1: market commodity. History professors literally sneer at efforts to restore

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Speaker 1: and remind about the very field they supposedly care about

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Speaker 1: teaching American history, and a great socialist effort to undermine

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Speaker 1: the exceptionalism of America and pride in it has taken

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Speaker 1: over an entire political party. The great Zech writer Milan

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Speaker 1: Kundera put it that the first step in liquidating a

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Speaker 1: people is to erase its memory, and that's been the

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Speaker 1: progressive effort. Here we must know of it. We cannot

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Speaker 1: let it prevail her